Legal Opinion
In re the Personal Restraint of Dyer
Washington Supreme Court
Decided March 29, 2001No. 67673-9PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
This Court granted review of a Court of
Appeals’ decision that dismissed Richard J. Dyer’s personal restraint petition, in which he claimed he had a right to extended family visits. We find the Court of Appeals properly determined that extended family visits are not a liberty interest and that the Department of Corrections did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in following the Division of Prisons Directive. We affirm.
FACTS
Richard J. Dyer, an inmate at Airway Heights Corrections Center (Airway Heights) since 1982, is serving a life sentence for the first degree rapes of two women: Ms. A in…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- State v. GunwallWashington Supreme Court · 1986
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